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THE TRAVELS OF
curioſity, andrilicule thoſe who paid ſuch reſpect to the memory of their ſuppoſed holy man, who had been depſited here. He imputed their zeal to the force of prejudice and ſuperſtition, and turned it into ſuch contempt, that he made water on the very tomb that was by them held ſacred: but ſhortly after, as if he had been arreſted by ſome inviſible hand, for his preſumption, having rode but a few paces from the tomb, he was thrown from his horſe to the ground, where he lay ſome time ſpeechleſs; and being conveyed to Mongh-ere on a litter, ſoon after his arrival expired. Here is an awful leſſon to thoſe who, through a narrowneſs of judgement and confined ſpeculation, are
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